NEW PROPOSITIONS.
Mr. FULLER introduced a bill [S. 208] for an act to amend section 9 of the act defining felonies, approved June 17, 1872. It provides that when a mortal wound is given or poison administered in one county and the victim dies in another, the courts in either county shall have jurisdiction, and if a mortal wound is given or poison administered or abortion produced and death insues in another State, the offender may be tried and punished in the county where the crime was committed.
Mr. BEESON introduced a bill [S. 209] for an act authorizing plank, gravel and Macadamized road companies, with the concurrence of Township Trustees when they shall have completed their roads and made it free of toll, to levy a tax ot not less than five nor more than twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars in each district, which may be worked out at the rate of $1 50 per day.
Mr. ARMSTRONG introduced a bill [S. 210] for an act supplemental to the county and township railroad act approved May 12, 1869, and to authorize Boards of Commissioners to extend the time for paying the same and erase the same from the tax duplicate. It provides for the extension for a period not less than six months nor more than twelve, on the petition of fifty tax-payers, of the time for the payment of taxes levied in aid of railroads, in case no work has been done on the road in the county or township.
Mr. FRIEDLEY, of Scott, introduced a bill [S. 211] for an act providing for the payment to Township Trustees of all monies collected by County Treasurers from tax payers in pursuance of the action of the people in favor of voting aid to railroads, &c.
Mr. DAUGHERTY introduced a bill [S. 212] for an act to amend section 30 of an amended act for the appointment of Supervisors of High ways, approved December 20, 1865. To provide that supervisors of highways shall make a full report of their proceedings on the last Saturday of September in each year.
Mr. SMITH introduced a bill [S. 213] for an act to amend section 16 of the act of May 6, 1852, concerning real property, and to provide that every conveyance or mortgage of lands or any interest thereon and every lease for more than three years shall be recorded in the Recorder's office of the county where the land is situated within thirty days, and in case of failure or neglect to do so, such conveyance, mortgage or lease shall be fraudulent and void, as against a subsequent purchaser in good faith and for valuable consideration.
